Chapter 80: A Supreme Falls, the Heavens Weep, and Shock Douluo! The Vermilion Bird Flees!
"He actually picked up a perfectly intact storage pouch from the corpse of a Self-Release Realm great cultivator!"
"And with the resources inside, he leapt straight from the Inscription Realm to become a Heavenly God Realm expert!"
"I heard he's preparing to challenge next year's Outer Sect Disciple Examination!"
Hearing Xiao Cui's explanation, Zhu Zhuqing was completely stunned.
Picking up trash… and becoming a Heavenly God Realm expert?
That was simply absurd!
At that moment, Senior Brother Li Changfeng stood surrounded by the crowd, a humble smile always hanging on his face.
"Senior Brother Li, please share some experience with us! We also want to find opportunities!
"Yes! Senior Brother returned with a full harvest three times. You're our role model!"
"Please teach us, Senior Brother!"
Faced with everyone's pleas, Li Changfeng reluctantly cleared his throat before speaking.
"There's actually no real secret."
"Just one word."
"Hide."
"When the big shots are fighting, never show your head!"
"Wait until the dust settles, then go rummage through the corners."
He raised a finger and paused before continuing.
"And don't be greedy!"
"If you see something too good, don't pick it up. A commoner isn't guilty, but possessing a treasure makes him guilty."
"Good treasures are also hot potatoes. Take them, and you might lose your life!"
"Pick up scraps others don't care about. Accumulate little by little—that's the real way."
Hearing this, everyone nodded repeatedly as if they had obtained priceless wisdom. Some nearly pulled out notebooks to write it all down.
Just as Senior Brother Li was about to share more treasure-picking knowledge—
"BOOM!"
A deafening explosion suddenly erupted from the distant horizon.
Immediately afterward, a terrifying sword qi over ten thousand zhang long tore through layers of the sea of cloud, sweeping across like a reversed heavenly river!
Wherever the sword qi passed, space shattered apart. Countless fierce birds and beasts were instantly slaughtered.
"Not good! Supreme-level aftershock!"
"Everyone, act together, form a formation!"
Within the crowd, Granny Wang's expression changed drastically. The dragon-headed cane in her hand instantly transformed into a towering pillar, blocking the front.
The leading experts from other sects also didn't dare hesitate. They summoned their most powerful treasures and even burned their life force to cast spells together.
"BOOM!!!"
The sword qi shockwave that came from a million miles away slammed into the defensive barrier.
A deafening roar exploded, nearly rupturing everyone's eardrums.
The earth trembled violently. Countless rocks rolled down the mountains.
Meanwhile, the defensive barrier twisted violently as if it might shatter at any moment.
Fortunately, it was only the aftershock of an aftershock.
With the combined efforts of more than ten experts, the sword qi finally dissipated.
"Pfft!"
Even so, a weaker steward spat out blood on the spot, his face turning pale.
"Everyone, be careful!"
At that moment, Granny Wang of the Primordial Immortal Court withdrew her cane and spoke in a grave voice that echoed across the area.
"That sword strike was unleashed by a powerhouse of the Supreme Realm!"
"Fortunately, it was only from a Supreme expert. If it had been a casual attack from someone in the Immortal Realm, even from a million miles away, even the smallest aftershock would have turned all of us into ashes!"
Hearing this, a Self-Release Realm great cultivator from an Undying Dao Lineage wiped the blood from his lips and said solemnly,
"It seems the battle has already begun over there."
"And it's extremely fierce."
Those words made Zhu Zhuqing and the countless beings of Douluo Continent behind the Sky Screen feel their hearts leap into their throats.
They hadn't even seen the fighters yet.
Just the aftershock had almost wiped out a group of experts who would be considered invincible on the Douluo Continent.
How terrifying must the battle at the outskirts of the Immortal King's Cave Abode, and especially the core battlefield, be?
However, just as everyone was still shaken—
A terrifying roar suddenly echoed from the distance.
"ROAR!!!"
This soundwave was even more terrifying than the previous sword qi.
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
Inside the camp, several servant disciples whose cultivation was only in the early Blood Transformation Realm couldn't withstand the power contained in that roar.
They were instantly shattered into bloody mist.
Even Zhu Zhuqing felt her chest tighten as she spat out another mouthful of blood.
If Granny Wang hadn't protected her, she likely would have exploded on the spot as well.
Before anyone could recover, an even more horrifying scene occurred.
The originally dim sky suddenly turned blood-red.
Not only that, but crimson blood rain began pouring down from the sky!
Every drop that hit the ground produced a sizzling, corrosive sound accompanied by green smoke.
Mixed within the blood rain were countless massive, broken limbs.
There were shattered dragon horns, broken phoenix feathers, and even a severed arm the size of a small mountain that still twitched slightly!
"This is… the Heavenly Weeping phenomenon from the fall of a Supreme?!"
Even the normally calm Granny Wang raised her head, staring at the rain of blood with trembling eyes.
"A Supreme has already fallen… and the battle has only just begun?"
"How many living beings are buried within this Immortal King Tomb?"
Above the sky, blood rain fell as the world seemed to mourn.
The scarlet rain continued to fall endlessly, corroding the earth.
Zhu Zhuqing's face turned pale as she tightly grabbed Xiao Cui's arm, squeezing so hard that Xiao Cui bared her teeth in pain.
Before she and the people of Douluo Continent behind the Sky Screen could react—
Another familiar cry of a divine bird suddenly rang out.
"Chirp!!!"
The sudden bird cry tore through the sky, overpowering even the thunder and blood rain.
"My heavens! Look!"
Someone in the crowd suddenly pointed toward the distant sky and shouted.
Zhu Zhuqing and the others instinctively looked up.
The next second, their pupils shrank.
They saw a scene they would never forget.
At the far end of the horizon, the dark clouds were suddenly burned through by blazing flames.
"BOOM!"
A gigantic fireball was fleeing frantically at incredible speed.
It was the guardian divine beast of the Fire Cloud Cave, the pure-blood Vermilion Bird!
However, it had already lost its previous majesty.
Its once-glorious flaming feathers were now in complete disarray, dripping with molten-gold blood like flowing magma.
Yet within its claws, it tightly clutched an unknown object.
The object wasn't large, but it emitted a suffocating aura.
Dense chaotic energy swirled around it, making its true form impossible to see.
One could only vaguely sense that a small world seemed to be gestating within.
"That's a supreme treasure!"
"Definitely a supreme treasure unearthed from the outer core region!"
Watching the Vermilion Bird soaring tens of thousands of meters above, Granny Wang's cane trembled.
Her cloudy old eyes were fixed on the object in its claws.
"It actually managed to seize something like that. No wonder it's fleeing for its life!"
"That speed… worthy of a divine bird!"
The Vermilion Bird suddenly flapped its wings.
Its enormous body left a long afterimage in the sky as space itself collapsed layer by layer behind it.
"Whoosh!"
In a single instant—
It crossed one hundred thousand miles.
Such speed was almost equivalent to teleportation, completely ignoring the laws of space!
"S-So fast…"
"Is this the ultimate speed of a divine bird from that world?"
Within the Douluo Continent, Ghost Douluo, the agility-type Title Douluo famous for his speed, stood frozen when he saw the Vermilion Bird in the sky screen.
He was nearly scared out of his mind.
With just one flap of its wings, he could spend his entire life chasing that speed…
…and still might never catch up.
However—
Just as the Vermilion Bird believed it was about to escape with the supreme treasure and return to Fire Cloud Cave—
A vast and ancient dragon roar suddenly exploded from the void behind it without warning.
"ROAR!!!"
The sound was so powerful that the clouds within a million-mile radius instantly dispersed.
Even the countless soul beasts in the Douluo Continent collapsed to the ground, trembling in fear.
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